You know because you have one. He's more fun and way tougher than all the other kids' monsters.

Try not to let him eat your friends.

Monsters and Other Childish Things is a distressingly fun and funny roleplaying game about kids and the relationship-devouring horrors from beyond time and space who love them. Players take the roles of kids and the vicious monsters who are their best friends in all the world -- and the source of all kinds of otherworldly trouble.

Monsters and Other Childish Things is perfect for new gamers young and old, and for all gamers who like a little humor with their horror and a few scares with their laughs.

Players take the roles of ordinary kids whose best friends are slavering monstrosities from beyond time and space — and that’s already enough to get them in all kinds of trouble with parents, school principals, friends, the Monster Investigation Bureau, mad science teachers, wannabe wizards, you name it. Can you make it through a school day without having to explain why your monster ate the substitute teacher? We’ll soon find out.

Ok. Here's the deal. Arcdream signed on with Cubicle-7 to take advantage of Cubicle-7's wider distribution network. The book is still an Arcdream book published "in conjunction with" Cubicle-7.

The cover art is exactly the same.

The page count has changed because the book has changed format. It's decreased in size from letter to digest. The content, however, has stayed exactly the same. The title changed somewhat. It went from Monsters and Other Childish Things (Monstrous Edition) to Monsters and Childish Things (Pocket Edition).